As Crisis Deepens, Resistance Wanes: Twilight of a Failed Species

The crisis is upon us, an evolutionary crossroads, and everyone is asleep and numbed by alienated labor and the mass media spectacle-sphere. We’re a failed species, we won’t make it, and will die with a long, slow, horrid whimper not a bang.

I’m in it to help those I can and leave something behind for the poor fucks who are the future generations, as they try to come to grips with our utter failures to wake up and respond to this omnicide and holocaust, and fight a hard but intelligent fight, rather that chant for peace and spread veganism to more white elites.

The world will go vegan, but not because of our movement, rather because of the massive crash, resource wars, scarcity and brutal global wars on the horizon. The global social and ecological system is unraveling before our eyes, and all the “go vegan” platitudes don’t amount to a damn thing without being attached to a fierce and implacable global resistance movement for total liberation.

The real spectacle is the raw obscenity of the failure of Homo sapiens and this “movement” which is so tethered to the machines of destruction, it is a lubricant not a friction. It’s revolution or ravage, and revolutions are not pretty or peaceful, and when push comes to shove and an ascending force tackles a decadent descending power.

But thanks to the passivists and the omnipresent Stockholm Syndrome mentality that has this movement captive, aided by cults and Kool-Aid drinking podpeople, we don’t have to worry about much bloodshed, people are marching quietly to planetary doom. Social and ecological collapse, the sixth great species extinction, extreme hunger, poverty, and suffering; capitalist commandeering of the planet….. and there’s not even anger. But I am consumed with rage, a fire of fury that fuels what little I myself can do.

Ahimsa, Namaste, Peace, Love, and Prozac: fuck these tranquilizers, rage against the machine…. and the dying of the light ..

Fuck this corrupt, omnicidal, nihilistic, corporate-controlled, fascist world-system; you don’t reform evil, you destroy it. Not a chance in hell to create a culture of life until we destroy the culture of death. Disease has consumed the entire body of civilization. We live among ruins, we inhabit a graveyard, an apocalyptic wasteland strewn with corpses, carrion, and zombies.

We need to focus like a laser beam on a grim truth: whatever the gains of a worldwide environmental and animal rights movements throughout the last four decades, they have nonetheless continued to lose ground in the battle to save biodiversity, to stop or even slow down the destruction of the rainforests, topsoil, coral reefs; to prevent ever-worsening resource wars; to end the blatant and open war and Holocaust against nonhuman animals; and to come to grips with the immanent catastrophe of climate change in our minds let alone our policies and actions.

The sense of urgency is rising in proportion to the severity of the crisis. Increasingly, calls for legislative change, moderation, compromise, and taking the slow march through the institutions can be seen as grotesquely inadequate, as growing numbers of people gravitate toward more radical tactics of change. “Reasonableness” and “moderation” in the current situation seem to be entirely unreasonable and immoderate, as “extreme” and “radical” actions appear simply as necessary and appropriate.

From Athens to Paris to Brazil, there is growing realization that politics as usual just won’t cut it anymore. We will always lose if we play by their rules rather than invent new forms of struggle, new social movements, and new sensibilities. The defense of the earth requires immediate and decisive action: logging roads need to be blocked, driftnets need to be cut, and cages need to be emptied. But these are piecemeal and reactive measures, and in addition to these tactics, radical movements and alliances must be built that unites struggles on behalf of humanity, nonhuman animals, and the earth in a politics of total liberation.

Resistance is the oxygen of the future. Live to resist, resist to live.